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No matter what this guy says or does, millions have switched to Lemmy not only is it like reddit, its better, its what reddit used to be.
Now, all will calm down for reddit but the boat started to leak and many will not go back. Just like many didn't go back to twitter. We will see a slow and steady increase of fediverse activity.
This is truly the web3 we all deserved.
Not to put a damper on, but it's more like 50k who started posting on lemmy in the past week for a total of 110k. We basically doubled the user count, but still are an order of magnitude away from 1 million.
Reddit is going to be a ghost town in a few months at this rate. If they wanted to push the website and app so hard, why not just make using a client a premium feature and charge for it? Give the users the option. Instead they had to go the worst route possible with this.
I wish I could share your confidence, but it's surprising how eager the average person is to let garbage be shoved down their throat before they're willing to change their habits. Just look at twitter, a complete dumpster fire that still has a huge amount of traffic. I'm willing to bet the large majority of those who simply browse reddit doesn't really care about the whole API shitshow, hell they were probably already using the official app in the first place.
Well he threw us the gauntlet. Let's pick it up.
This whole statement strikes me as tone-deaf. They want to "ship" the product, but the product is just removing accessibility. It literally makes the platform worse.
Not going back to reddit. I'll manage without it.
So tone deaf
You know you're doing the right thing when you have to instruct your employees not to wear your brand to avoid confrontation.
This reminds me of Blackberry
They will slowly fade and become an archive
this too shall pass
I believe there's going to be a moderator exodus. The flippancy with which Steve has handled this, and how he responded here, is going to stick in the craws of their enormous unpaid workforce. These are the people who have been there a decade plus, have seen the ebbs and flows, and are probably no longer willing to be unpaid servants to their clearly demonstrated monetary interests (at the expense of its users [product]). This was a turning point. They have way bigger problems to address than a 48 hour boycott.
I work on a corporate team and often companies will allow team members to wear anything to work as long as it’s branded. This, employees have an incentive to spend that money to customize their look at work, if that’s important to them. It is to some people.
My company has a code that brings all items down to cost, and I have bought some uniform items that way to mix up what I wear at work.
The company that I work for is a small business with a great local reputation; wearing my company’s logo is a positive for me. Can’t say that would be the case if I worked for Reddit.
